[opensuse] Re: wifi

On 2008-12-31, Low Kian Seong wrote:

Most of the laptop has a hardware based wifi switch which can be used to achieve this.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:38 PM, r wrote:

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Hi, how to switch off permanently the wifi ( on laptop ) and switch on just when I want ??

I could be wrong, but it seems to me this works for windows. I explain. Yes there is a button to switch on wlan, and in windows it works so, but ( and here I could be wrong ) in linux it seems to me that the wlan is always active. For exemple, if I boot and go, with knetworkmanager in the tool for managing networks I see an option to switch off wlan. I tried to switch off but at reboot it was again active, so it seems to me the button doesn't works on linux. A tips I had is to blacklist the driver which kernel/networkmanager loads at boot, but my question is, if I don't load the driver I cannot connect ( until I do a modprobe ) to wlan, but the device itself is in anyway switched on ? because blacklisting the driver too, I, in networkmanager, see always the option to swirch off wifi. So it seems it is not switched off -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org